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...tall, tolerant Henry Noble MacCracken. They were bedded in Main Hall, the men in one wing, girls in another. In the corridors between the two wings the college had prudently stationed watchmen. Among the delegates were Economist Stuart Chase's son Robert (Harvard). Supreme Court Justice Benjamin Cardozo's niece Nancy (Swarthmore), Law Professor Felix Frankfurter's niece Ruth (Barnard), famed Lawyer Samuel Untermyer's grandson Frank (Cornell). Absent were A. S. U.'s executive committee members George Watt and Paul MacEachron, fighting with the Loyalists in Spain. Several A. S. U. members have been...
Written by Associate Justice Benjamin Cardozo, who was recuperating from a heavy cold, read by Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes, the majority opinion found that the Secretary of the Treasury "did not act in excess of his lawful powers by issuing the calls without further authority from the Congress than was conferred by the statutes under which the bonds were issued." Diminished by one, when Hugo LaFayette Black replaced Willis Van Devanter, the Court's conservative minority dissented as sharply this week as it did in 1935. Said explosive Justice James Clark McReynolds for the minority: "If you will...
...member and an exception to the procedure whereby new Justices serve an initial period before being called upon to speak for their colleagues. When Justice Black had finished, the Court proceeded to the rest of the day's business. By a 5-to-4 majority-Justices Brandeis, Stone, Cardozo, Black strenuously dis-senting-it held that a $10,000 gift made to an employe for "valuable and loyal service" in 1931 was not taxable as income. Among eleven other decisions handed down, the most important per se was a preliminary victory for the National Labor Relations Board...
When Justice Benjamin Nathan Cardozo replaced Justice Holmes in 1932, the change did nothing to alter the Court's balance and it was a minority again which defended Florida's right to impose a system of graduated taxes on chain stores. Brandeis' opinion, in this case too, was the statement of a fundamental tenet. "There is a widespread belief that . . . only by releasing from corporate control the faculties of the unknown many . . . can confidence in our future be restored. ... If the citizens of Florida share that belief, I know of nothing in the Federal Constitution which precludes...
...Columbia University Law School and Attorney General under Calvin Coolidge, once reportedly slated (by President Hoover) for the Chief Justiceship that Charles Evans Hughes surprisingly accepted in 1930, was raised to the bench in 1925. His liberalism, mostly acquired thereafter, contains more tolerance than militancy. Humanitarian Benjamin Nathan Cardozo's liberalism comes from the heart...